UPSC Punjabi Literature Syllabus Paper-I

(Answers must be written in Punjabi in Gurumukhi Script)

Section-A

(a) Origin of Punjabi language : different stages of development and recent development in Punjabi language : characteristics of Punjabi phonology and the study of its tones: classification of vowels and consonants.

(b) Punjabi morphology : the numbergender system (animate and inanimate), prefixes, affixes and different categories

(c) Language and dialect; the notions of dialect and idiolect; major dialects of Punjabi; Pothohari, Majhi, Doabi, Malwai, Puadhi; the validity of speech variation on the basis of social stratification, the distinctive features of various dialects with special reference to tones. Language and script; origin and development of

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